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Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by aruggirello »

sandworm101 wrote: post #6

Every horrible windows story is yet another glorious day for linux. Fyi, in Mint if you search application for "notepad", "Text Editor" is the first result. That is curated search done right. Search for notepad on windows and you probably get an ad for a travel website.

> That is curated search done right.

Adding keywords in the relevant .desktop files should be enough to make this work in other DE's too. I just tried it in KDE (by adding a 'comment=... (like notepad)' line in ~/.local/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop), it works as expected

Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by avtar »

AviationAtom wrote: post #18
sandworm101 wrote: post #6

Every horrible windows story is yet another glorious day for linux. Fyi, in Mint if you search application for "notepad", "Text Editor" is the first result. That is curated search done right. Search for notepad on windows and you probably get an ad for a travel website.

Cinnamon is cool and all but I prefer KDE Plasma. It seems to eliminate all the pain points Linux desktop environments typically have and everything just works. Pair it with Debian and you got a solid system.

> Pair it with Debian

A KDE dev mentioned on a podcast that issues related to Debian Stable get closed automatically on their bug tracker because fixes don't get backported :/

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1pneqp4/kde_dev_do_n...

My wife was complaining about Windows issues so I ended up installing Fedora with KDE on her laptop. I would have preferred Debian but using Testing (as suggested by the dev) doesn't some ideal.

Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by expedition32 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #22
wrs wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I'm still a _______ guy, and I always will be." No matter what trademark you put in the blank, this is not a healthy thing to say.

Yeah, not sure how people form almost "relationships" with their tools and refuse sometimes to even explore options. I'm always open to switching almost anything. I never end up doing, because things are usually not better, but maybe 1/100 times something is better, and then I switch. Initially did that around Ubuntu 9.10 before, and I'll switch away from Arch in a heartbeat if anything better comes around. Edit: I r…

Honestly as a deeply antisocial person the Linux cult has always rubbed me the wrong way. Same reason why I don't have an iPhone.

Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by neRok »

Animats wrote: post #26

How can Microsoft legally do that? Notepad++ is GPL-licensed open source. It's on Github.[1] [1] https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus

Notepad++ isn't [Windows Notepad](https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9msmlrh6lzf3)

Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by john01dav »

wlesieutre wrote: post #2

> I'm still a Windows guy, and I always will be. And this is exactly why Microsoft can get away with a buggy mess of a user hostile operating system. They only have an incentive to make a good OS if people are willing to leave when it’s a bad one.

Apple has an even bigger loyalty problem. For them and Microsoft it's arguably good, but it's bad for users, even the loyal ones. It might even be bad for Apple and Microsoft long term.

Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by trinix912 »

sandworm101 wrote: post #6

Every horrible windows story is yet another glorious day for linux. Fyi, in Mint if you search application for "notepad", "Text Editor" is the first result. That is curated search done right. Search for notepad on windows and you probably get an ad for a travel website.

> Fyi, in Mint if you search application for "notepad", "Text Editor" is the first result. That is curated search done right. Search for notepad on windows and you probably get an ad for a travel website.

So it was with Windows Vista, Windows 7, even Windows 8. It's not an impossible ask for Windows either.

Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by baal80spam »

thot_experiment wrote: post #28

I cannot see myself installing Windows 11, it's sad, I've been primarily a windows guy for my home computer since W95 and I'll miss it. Windows 10 (LTSC) has been the best operating system experience of my life, once I disabled updates and all the nag screens it's been rock solid for me for many years. It's so important to be able to trust that your computer works the same way tomorrow as it does today. I hope that t…

Are you me?

Well, technically from 3.1 but everything else checks out.

Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by cheschire »

neRok wrote: post #34
Animats wrote: post #26

How can Microsoft legally do that? Notepad++ is GPL-licensed open source. It's on Github.[1] [1] https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus

Notepad++ isn't [Windows Notepad]( https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9msmlrh6lzf3 )

Hilariously related, the title of this topic now looks to me like "Notepad--"
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